JSTL - SQL Server Database Connectivity problem

Question

Hi All
I am trying to implement DB connection using JSTL sql tag using the following code :-
<c:set value="jdbc:sqlserver://localhost;databaseName=Studentreg;user=sa;password=pass" var="URL"/>
<sql:setDataSource driver="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver" url="${URL}" user="sa" password="pass" var="stc"/>
But I am getting the error :-
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Unable to get connection, DataSource invalid: "java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver"
root cause
javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Unable to get connection, DataSource invalid: "java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver"
But when I am trying to implement the same using the jdbc-odbc driver It work fine. This is the code:-
<sql:setDataSource driver="sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver" url="jdbc:odbc:dsn_name" user="sa" password="pass" var="stc"/>
Please help me in this regards
Thanks in Advance
Sulfikkar

Answer 1

java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driverMeans that it can not find the JDBC driver in the classpath.
Make sure your Database driver is in your WEB-INF/lib directory, or [TOMCAT]/common/lib directory (or equivalent)
Cheers,
evnafets